Comments on the entry: Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of school - AL.comhttps://blog.advance.net/cgi-bin/mte/mt-search.cgiindex=comment&template_id=entry_comments_feed&search=&limit=20&affiliate=bama&filter_entry_basename=huntsville_district_cracking_d_1&searchall=1&IncludeBlogs=8592011-11-08T15:06:01ZMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceComment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178550182011-11-08T15:06:01Z2011-11-08T15:06:01Zdral, you're lucky you could bike or take public transportation to school. We are three miles from a school but because we are in another county our children go to the school that is 8 miles away, go figure. Weimanalmomhttp://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178547492011-11-08T14:51:04Z2011-11-08T14:51:04ZIf this is sarcasm, it's brilliant. If this is the way you feel, you prolly don't have kids and hopefully won't. Does your uniform include a red sash?creonhttp://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178547062011-11-08T14:48:55Z2011-11-08T14:48:55ZDon't get me totally wrong, my kids go to school every day excepting sickness or pre-planned and approved occasions.........the state and federal money is as big a motivator than student welfare in this. That $2-$3-$5 per day per student addscreonhttp://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178544652011-11-08T14:36:21Z2011-11-08T14:36:21Z...I grew up in a time when an education was a benefit for your future...we (my generation) accepted responsibility for our own actions and one responsibility was getting ourselves to school on time...we weren't coddled by having Mommy drive usdral229http://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178538842011-11-08T13:59:42Z2011-11-08T13:59:42ZRather than use a punitive approach, why not seek to address the reasons these children are staying out of schools and find out how to help their families in a positive and encouraging way? I remember during my own daysjanedeneefehttp://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178537102011-11-08T13:47:29Z2011-11-08T13:47:29ZMichelle6 - I am in the same boat as you with the allergy issues. And while they are on all sorts of preventatives, as well as receive shots, some days are just miserable. A child can't concentrate like that. AndNativeHuntsvillianComment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178524122011-11-08T11:51:11Z2011-11-08T11:51:11ZThere is no way I would send my kid to public school. If I had to move somewhere I would but mine would be home schooled.IantdidnothingComment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178515692011-11-08T07:08:37Z2011-11-08T07:08:37ZIt takes a village. And every village needs an idiot.hvilleparenthttp://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178504232011-11-08T03:57:29Z2011-11-08T03:57:29ZI have to add in here -- the schools are wasting their time sending social workers to someone after 3 absences. They have no common sense and consistently go after the wrong people. They need to do it on amichelle6Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178499992011-11-08T03:20:49Z2011-11-08T03:20:49ZI think they're looking for missing Hispanic kids. You know, to comply with the DOJ request.smmarkfanhttp://Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178498962011-11-08T03:12:15Z2011-11-08T03:12:15ZI think more parents deserve prison time because of child absentism. There is NO EXCUSE for unexcused children. No disability should ever be excused for the parents stupidity. Take the children away from bad parents.AcdldriverComment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178491802011-11-08T02:09:26Z2011-11-08T02:09:26ZUh....freedom much? Alabama education is such a joke anyway. I'd rather my kids get some sleep than sit through the nothingness of AL schools.roma84Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178491782011-11-08T02:09:24Z2011-11-08T02:09:24ZI don't know the situation of any of these parents but I do know that not everybody they send a social worker after has a child with an attendance problem. The principal at our daughter's school last year deliberately referredSherrimaeComment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178490602011-11-08T01:58:02Z2011-11-08T01:58:02ZIn Alabama, a parent/student has no guaranteed right to a public education, and yet, the State can arrest a parent and discipline a student for not attending a school for which it has to right to have in the firstaero66Comment on Huntsville district cracking down on parents who keep kids out of schooltag:blog.al.com,2015:/breaking//859.178482792011-11-08T00:52:33Z2011-11-08T00:52:33ZCracking down on crackheadsdrakeindya